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Stephan D Fihn

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health
Professor, Medicine – General Internal Medicine

sfihn@uw.edu

Research Interests

Quality of care particularly in the outpatient setting and in health measurement; clinical topics including heart disease, COPD, UTI, anticoagulation

Bio

Professor Fihn is a general internist with interests in measurement and and evaluating models of health care delivery. He also serves as Head of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine and as Director of the Office of Analytics and Business Intelligence for the Department of Veterans Affairs. In the past he studied interventions to improve quality of care and outcomes for a variety of clinical conditions including urinary tract infections, chronic anticoagulation and ischemic heart disease. His recent work addresses developing and evaluating system-level interventions to enhance primary care delivery and population health such as the Patient Centered Medical Home in the VA system.

Education

MD St Louis University, 1977
MPH Health Services, University of Washington, 1981
BS Chemistry, , 1973

Academic Programs and Affiliations

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Call for Papers on the Effects of War on Health and Health Care Delivery, Access, and Equity.
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Rivara FP, Haneuse SJPA, Morris AM, Fihn SD. Call for Papers on the Effects of War on Health and Health Care Delivery, Access, and Equity. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 May 2;5(5):e2217872. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17872.
JAMA Network Open-The Year in Review, 2021.
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Rivara FP, Fihn SD. JAMA Network Open-The Year in Review, 2021. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Mar 1;5(3):e225661. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.5661. Review.
Clinical Outcome and Utilization Profiles Among Latent Groups of High-Risk Patients: Moving from Segmentation Towards Intervention.
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Hutchins F, Thorpe J, Maciejewski ML, Zhao X, Daniels K, Zhang H, Zulman DM, Fihn S, Vijan S, Rosland AM. Clinical Outcome and Utilization Profiles Among Latent Groups of High-Risk Patients: Moving from Segmentation Towards Intervention. J Gen Intern Med.
Structural Racism and JAMA Network Open.
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Rivara FP, Bradley SM, Catenacci DV, Desai AN, Ganguli I, Haneuse SJPA, Inouye SK, Jacobs EA, Kan K, Kim HS, Morris AM, Ogedegbe O, Perencevich EN, Perlis RH, Powell E, Rubenfeld GD, Shulman LN, Trueger NS, Fihn SD. Structural Racism and JAMA Network Open
The Primary Care Analytics Team: Integrating research and clinical care within the Veterans Health Administration Office of Primary Care.
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Nelson K, Reddy A, Stockdale SE, Rose D, Fihn S, Rosland AM, Stewart G, Denietolis A, Curtis I, Mori A, Rubenstein L. The Primary Care Analytics Team: Integrating research and clinical care within the Veterans Health Administration Office of Primary Care.
Incentivizing Firearm Safety and Storage Counseling in the US Health Care System: a Path Forward.
PubMed
Prater LC, Ellyson A, Fihn SD. Incentivizing Firearm Safety and Storage Counseling in the US Health Care System: a Path Forward. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Nov;36(11):3568-3570. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06800-x. Epub 2021 Apr 26.
Envisioning the Veterans Affairs Health Care System of the Future.
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Yehia BR, Fihn SD. Envisioning the Veterans Affairs Health Care System of the Future. JAMA. 2021 Mar 23;325(12):1143-1144. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.0961.
JAMA Network Open-The Year in Review, 2020.
PubMed
Rivara FP, Fihn SD. JAMA Network Open-The Year in Review, 2020. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e212388. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.2388.
Discovery, Learning, and Experimentation With Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools at the Point of Care-Perils and Opportunity.
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Auerbach A, Fihn SD. Discovery, Learning, and Experimentation With Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools at the Point of Care-Perils and Opportunity. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e211474. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1474.
Elective Care and Health Services Research in the COVID-19 Era.
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Jacobs EA, Ogedegbe O, Fihn SD. Elective Care and Health Services Research in the COVID-19 Era. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2025731. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25731.

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